No Kindle for Kirchner

In the age of the iPad, Argentina bans importing books.

April 3, 2012 7:25 p.m. ET

The politics of Argentina get curiouser and curiouser. Now, Argentina President Cristina Kirchner is pursuing an economic policy that combines Ray Bradbury's book-banning novel "Fahrenheit 451" with Peter Sellers's prime minister in "The Mouse that Roared," wherein a tiny European duchy decides to solve its economic problems by declaring war on the U.S.